Editing Labanotation (section)

{{Short description|System for analyzing and recording human movement}}
[[File:Labanotation1.jpg|thumb|Rudolf Laban presenting his notation system, circa 1929]]
[[File:Labanotation2.jpg|thumb|Dance workshop based on Laban's notation system, circa 1929]] 
'''Labanotation''' (grammatically correct form "Labannotation" or "Laban notation" is uncommon) is a system for analyzing and recording human movement ([[Notation|notation system]]), invented by Austro-Hungarian choreographer and dancer [[Rudolf von Laban]] (1879–1958, a central figure in European modern dance), who developed his notation on movements in the 1920s.<ref name="TLS1">{{Cite news|title=The Laban Sourcebook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZU1ZBwAAQBAJ|first=Dick|last=McCaw|publisher=Routledge Taylor & Francis|location=London, New York|date=2011|page=1|language=en|isbn=9780415543330}}</ref><ref name="EDKL1">{{Cite news|title=Early Development and Publications in Kinetography Laban/Labanotation|url=http://dancenotation.org/news/Library_News/library_v10_n1.pdf|first=Ann|last=Hutchinson Guest|publisher=Dance Notation Bureau Library|location=New York|date=2015|page=|language=en|isbn=}}</ref>